| Man charged with carpark rape | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 7:14:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | A man has been charged with rape and sexual assault of a 22-year-old woman in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane. Police said the assault occurred in a carpark at the corner of Ruthven and Joseph streets at 2.45 (AEST) on Sunday before a passerby came to the woman's assistance and chased the alleged assailant away. A 20-year-old man is due to appear in the Toowoomba magistrates court on Monday. © 2006 AAPBrought to you by .... | |
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| | | Rape victims demand justice, Dalit youths flee | | Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 2:02:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | Patna, Aug 26: Fear of a backlash from the upper caste people in a Bihar village has forced Dalit youths to flee, and those who chose to stay back are frightened after some Dalit rape victims knocked the doors for justice from Patna to Delhi.Twenty days after four Dalit women from Ramnagar-Gopalpur village in Lakhisarai district were raped at gunpoint by a landowner and his accomplices, Dalits in the village have been living in fear. The accused reportedly threatened to eliminate some Dalit families for highlighting the issue and demanding police action.It was only after the rape victims met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the police slapped a case of rape against the accused early this week - 15 days after the incident.They were assaulted and raped on Aug 6 night as punishment by upper caste men because of their refusal to vote one woman candidate - Pinki Devi, the wife of an upper caste landowner, now the village body head in the panchayat elections in June."Except for a few old people, dalit youths and men fled the village fearing threat to their lives after the victims dared to highlight their plight and sought justice," a close relative of one of the rape victims said here Saturday.Although a police team was deployed in the village, it could hardly instil confidence among Dalits.... | |
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| | | UW senior seeks to change handling of rape cases | | Posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:56:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | Laura Dunn didn't get the result she was seeking, but she's hoping her efforts will help future victims of sexual assault. A year ago, the UW-Madison senior reported that she had been sexually assaulted 15 months earlier by two men while she was drunk. The District Attorney's Office has declined to prosecute. The Dean's Office closed the case without imposing any sanctions on the one suspect who was still enrolled at the university last semester. Dunn's ordeal was documented in The Capital Times on May 6. She is now working with the Roosevelt Institution, a Stanford University-based student think tank with university chapters nationwide. Heading into her senior year, the aspiring lawyer plans to work with the Dean's Office in an effort to develop progressive, victim-friendly ways to handle sexual assaults.... | |
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